The New Zealand Agricultural Sample Survey

1956 ◽  
Vol 119 (4) ◽  
pp. 409
Author(s):  
W. B. Taylor ◽  
D. V. P. Clement
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Sample Survey ◽  
Agricultural Sample

scholarly journals The Persistence of Vaccine Hesitancy: COVID-19 Vaccination Intention

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jagadish Thaker
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Vaccine Uptake ◽  
Sample Survey ◽  
Vaccine Hesitancy ◽  
Effective Vaccine ◽  
The Public ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Communication Campaign ◽  
Scientific Experts ◽  
Nationally Representative

AbstractBuilding public trust and willingness to vaccinate against COVID-19 is as important as developing an effective vaccine. However, a significant minority of the public are unwilling or hesitant to take a COVID-19 vaccine, when available. A nationally representative sample survey (N=1040) was conducted in July 2020 in New Zealand to identify factors associated with COVID-19 vaccine intention. Trust in experts and general vaccine hesitancy were significantly associated with COVID-19 vaccine intention. A communication campaign from trusted scientific experts, with information that addresses prevailing concerns about vaccines, is likely to help increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake.

Psychosomatic Associations Between Thinking Patterns and Parkinson's Disease from a Yoga Philosophy Perspective: A New Zealand Cross-Sectional Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-107
Author(s):  
Sridhar Maddela ◽  
Stephen Buetow
Keyword(s):  
Parkinson’S Disease ◽  
Parkinson's Disease ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Sample Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Philosophical Perspective ◽  
Neurophysiological Mechanisms

Abstract When investigating the etiology of diseases, epidemiological observational studies traditionally deemphasize psychosomatic associations. Exploring cognitive behavior provides an insight into how psychosomatic associations affect disease. Yoga philosophy identifies the kleshas (mental afflictions) of ignorance, ego, desire, hatred, and fear of death with disease. This is because individuals' perceptions and beliefs generate and reflect streams of thought that may shape their behavior and manifest as, or predispose them to, particular disease(s). The present study takes a yogic philosophical perspective to help elucidate unexplored associations between thinking about different aspects of life and the severity of Parkinson's disease (PD). The study involved a cross-sectional sample survey. Parkinson's New Zealand selected a random sample of 990 of its members. A self-completed questionnaire was sent to them. It asked questions about how often, over the previous 4 weeks, they had thought about 18 aspects of life commonly associated with the kleshas. A completed questionnaire was returned by 319 people (32%). Respondents thought most about family (87%), health (64%), rest and sleep (57%), food (53%), and the future (52%). They reported thinking least about work (48%), sex (45%), death (42%), and being virtuous (39%). A weak, but hypothesized positive, association (r = 0.2, p < 0.000) was detected between PD severity and thinking about death. The study could not determine whether thinking about death was (1) a cause or consequence of PD severity, and (2) a premorbid behavior. However, the possibility that stress associated with thinking about death accelerates PD progression is consistent with yoga philosophy and with neurophysiological mechanisms associated with the psychosomatic connections. The findings are worthy of future testing. A retrospective cohort study and qualitative research could deepen understanding about the role of kleshas in PD.

scholarly journals Gender differences in general practice utilisation in New Zealand

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Santosh Jatrana ◽  
Peter Crampton
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
General Practice ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Service Use ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sample Survey ◽  
Outcome Variable ◽  
Gp Services ◽  
Nationally Representative

INTRODUCTION: This paper aims to examine gender differences in general practice utilisation in New Zealand. METHODS: The data for this research came from 10 506 visit records gathered from 246 general practitioners (GPs) who took part in the National Primary Medical Care Survey (NatMedCa), a nationally representative, multistage, probability sample survey of GPs and patient visits conducted in 2001/2002. The number of visits to a general practice in the last 12 months among those patients who visited the GP at least once during the past 12 months was used as the outcome variable. Poisson regression was used for analysis. RESULTS: Women were more likely than men to visit a GP over the last 12 months (IRR=1.13; 95% CI: 1.03–1.24). We also found significant female excess in utilisation of GP services even after excluding gynaecological and obstetric conditions and across all age groups. Asian were 39% less likely than European women to visit a GP (IRR=0.61; 95% CI: 0.43–0.85); a result that was not reflected in men’s utilisation of GP services. In addition, we found that women visiting GPs were 39% more likely to have reported ‘life-threatening’ problems as compared to ‘self-limiting’ problems (IRR=1.39; 95% CI: 1.00–1.94). CONCLUSION: Our results do not support the body of literature that suggests that women’s excess in service use can largely be attributed to gynaecological and obstetrical conditions or that the female excess in visits is focussed in the childbearing years. Ethnicity and the severity of a problem contributed significantly to explaining women’s, but not men’s, utilisation of GPs. KEYWORDS: Gender differences; health services utilisation; New Zealand

scholarly journals Work and Timing of First Live Births in New Zealand

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Dharmalingam ◽  
Ian Pool ◽  
Kim Johnstone
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Sample Survey ◽  
Proportional Hazard ◽  
Group Level ◽  
Live Births ◽  
First Child ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
First Job

In this paper we have used data from a nationally representative sample survey of New Zealand women (N=2673) aged between 20 and 59 years. We employ life-table technique and proportional hazard modelling to assess the role of individual and group level variables in determining the timing of first live births. This study suggests that a woman's decision to work and to have children and when to have them are intimately linked. While the age at which women obtain their first job has not changed much over the generations the age of the mother when her first child was born has risen considerably over recent generations. The result has been a widening period of time between the first job and the first child (for both Maori and non-Maori). Our analysis suggests that the number of years a woman has worked is very closely associated with when she has her first child having worked increases the chances of having a child, but as the work experience lengthens so this chance declines.

Magellanic Cloud Eclipsing Binaries: Primary Distance Indicators

1999 ◽  
Vol 190 ◽  
pp. 563-566
Author(s):  
J. D. Pritchard ◽  
W. Tobin ◽  
J. V. Clausen ◽  
E. F. Guinan ◽  
E. L. Fitzpatrick ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Magellanic Cloud ◽  
Eclipsing Binaries ◽  
Fundamental Parameters ◽  
Distance Indicators

Our collaboration involves groups in Denmark, the U.S.A. Spain and of course New Zealand. Combining ground-based and satellite (IUEandHST) observations we aim to determine accurate and precise stellar fundamental parameters for the components of Magellanic Cloud Eclipsing Binaries as well as the distances to these systems and hence the parent galaxies themselves. This poster presents our latest progress.

Heat-Etching with a Bullivant Type II Simple Freeze-Cleave Device

1970 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 106-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald S. Weinstein ◽  
N. Scott McNutt
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
General Hospital ◽  
Massachusetts General Hospital ◽  
Type I ◽  
Type Ii ◽  
Collaborative Effort ◽  
Temperature And Pressure ◽  
The University

The Type I simple cold block device was described by Bullivant and Ames in 1966 and represented the product of the first successful effort to simplify the equipment required to do sophisticated freeze-cleave techniques. Bullivant, Weinstein and Someda described the Type II device which is a modification of the Type I device and was developed as a collaborative effort at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Auckland, New Zealand. The modifications reduced specimen contamination and provided controlled specimen warming for heat-etching of fracture faces. We have now tested the Mass. General Hospital version of the Type II device (called the “Type II-MGH device”) on a wide variety of biological specimens and have established temperature and pressure curves for routine heat-etching with the device.

A Cytochemical Study of Glucose-6-Phosphatase (G-6-PASE) in Cells Participating in Atherogenesis of Rabbit Aorta

1975 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 460-461
Author(s):  
Sidney D. Kobernick ◽  
Edna A. Elfont ◽  
Neddra L. Brooks
Keyword(s):  
Lipid Metabolism ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Aortic Wall ◽  
Rabbit Aorta ◽  
Plaque Formation ◽  
Metabolic Changes ◽  
Atherosclerotic Plaques ◽  
Cytochemical Study ◽  
Cellular Alteration ◽  
New Zealand White Rabbits

This cytochemical study was designed to investigate early metabolic changes in the aortic wall that might lead to or accompany development of atherosclerotic plaques in rabbits. The hypothesis that the primary cellular alteration leading to plaque formation might be due to changes in either carbohydrate or lipid metabolism led to histochemical studies that showed elevation of G-6-Pase in atherosclerotic plaques of rabbit aorta. This observation initiated the present investigation to determine how early in plaque formation and in which cells this change could be observed.Male New Zealand white rabbits of approximately 2000 kg consumed normal diets or diets containing 0.25 or 1.0 gm of cholesterol per day for 10, 50 and 90 days. Aortas were injected jin situ with glutaraldehyde fixative and dissected out. The plaques were identified, isolated, minced and fixed for not more than 10 minutes. Incubation and postfixation proceeded as described by Leskes and co-workers.

Isozyme variation of Microsporum canis and M. cookei from New Zealand

1998 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 255-262
Author(s):  
SIMPANYA ◽  
JARVIS ◽  
BAXTER
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Microsporum Canis ◽  
Isozyme Variation
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